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Hard-earned dough
Two former Dublin bank wor-kers, Graham Clarke and Sophie Morris, who started their own company Kooky Dough, are now supplying 20 stores across Ireland, including four branches of the Superquinn supermarket.The pair, who were made redundant last October, produce and package the dough, made with all-Irish ingredients, in a ...
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Sustainable palm oil drive
Nortech Foods has joined up with New Britain Oils Limited (NBOL) to offer fully certified sustainable palm oil in a packaged format to food manufacturers.NBOL, via its parent company New Britain Palm Oil Limited, has plantations in Papua New Guinea, which are certified as sustainable by the international Roundtable on ...
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Equipment outlay for Tunnocks
Scottish firm Tunnocks has invested £4m in new machinery to improve efficiency at its Uddingston site, which produces caramel wafers and teacakes.The firm spent £2m on new machinery earlier this year, including two foiling machines, two flow packs and a robotic case packer. MD Boyd Tunnock told British Baker the ...
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Fox’s revamp
Fox’s has re-launched its Cookie Bars with no artificial colours or flavours. Available this month, the new bars will be targeted at "family chocolate biscuit bar buyers", said the firm.The biscuit has undergone several recipe developments, including textural modifications and the addition of more chocolate chips. Fox’s has also revamped ...
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Gifted performance
Ashers of Nairn has always been recognised first and foremost as a retail baker, with its shops accounting today for some 80% of total sales. However, the other 20% of its turnover drawn notably from wholesale and the gift sector has provided welcome insulation against seasonal or recession-related ...
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Scots update identity
The Scottish Association of Master Bakers has assumed the new corporate identity of Scottish Bakers, as part of a revamp of the organisation’s operations. "As part of this, we wanted to create a fresh public image," explained chief executive Kirk Hunter. "We felt it wasn’t obvious to the public what ...
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Juicy news
It seems smoothies have had their heyday and other premium drinks categories, such as pure juice, have also taken a knock in the recession. So what have consumers been drinking instead? From much of the data that has been floating around at the moment, it appears that many consumers have ...
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Party lines
What policies are you proposing to assist SMEs and those starting up businesses with accessing credit and business support?MARK PRISK, SHADOW BUSINESS MINISTER, CONSERVATIVES:We would use Government guarantees to create more diverse sources of affordable credit for businesses, building on our proposals at the start of the recession for a ...
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Mouthing off
"In the four weeks of the World Cup, blokes tend to get a bit obsessed with football to the extent that they don’t look after their partners. The idea is that in the week before the World Cup, we’re saying ’ladies, make sure you get your oats’. What we mean ...
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Time to take on something new
By Max Jenvey of Oxxygen Marketing Partnership, a strategic management agency that works on brand development within the bakery, foodservice and convenience retail sectors.Are you looking to improve your bakery offer by adding new products that meet today’s trends? Good idea, as there is a lot going on in the ...
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NAMB conferenceThe National Association of Master Bakers’ Conference is returning to the De Vere Hotel, Blackpool on May 7-10, supported by California Raisins. After the AGM, there will be talks from three craft bakers, Tom and Dick Lewis of Mhor Bakery and David Smart of Greenhalgh’s, plus the installation of ...
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Tromp sales officeDutch-based bakery equipment manufacturer Tromp has opened a sales office to serve the baking industry in the UK and Ireland, and has appointed Robert Done as general sales manager. Turnkey systems and equipment from the three firms in the group will be marketed from the new office ...
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Pie accoladesThe British Pie Awards 2010 will take place on Wednesday 19 May at St Mary’s Church in Melton Mowbray. The event, sponsored by Colman’s, will see bakers fight it out against butchers, in a bid to be crowned the best pie-maker. The judging panel will comprise pie experts and ...
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Atkins diet is back
The low-carbohydrate Atkins diet, which encourages followers to virtually give up eating bread, has been relaunched, with a new book outlining a revised version of the diet and a £200,000 campaign in national newspapers promoting Atkins food products.Sales of bread in the UK suffered at the height of the Atkins ...
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New bakery course over-subscribed
The bakery option on a new advanced diploma in Artisan Food Production is over-subscribed as people look to retrain and set up their own businesses.The School of Artisan Food in Nottinghamshire is now accepting applications for the two-year full-time advanced diploma, which begins in September, with students able to specialise ...
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NewsSAMB reveals new corporate identity
The Scottish Association of Master Bakers has assumed the new corporate identity of Scottish Bakers, as part of a revamp of the organisation’s operations. “As part of this, we wanted to create a fresh public image,” explained chief executive Kirk Hunter. “We felt it wasn’t obvious to the public what ...
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SAMB reveals new corporate identity
The Scottish Association of Master Bakers has assumed the new corporate identity of Scottish Bakers, as part of a revamp of the organisation’s operations.
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HSE seeks craft opinion on heat guidelines
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is in the process of carrying out a review of its high workplace temperatures policy, with a view to drawing up sector-specific guidance for bakery workers, and is looking for craft bakers to voice their views.
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HSE seeks craft opinion on heat guidelines
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is in the process of carrying out a review of its high workplace temperatures policy, with a view to drawing up sector-specific guidance for bakery workers, and is looking for craft bakers to voice their views. The HSE has already had input from a ...
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Tunnocks invests in efficiency
Scottish-firm Tunnocks has invested £4 million in new machinery to improve efficiency at its Uddingston site, which produces its Caramel Wafers and Teacakes.The firm spent £2m on new machinery earlier this year, including two foiling machines, two flow packs and a robotic case packer earlier this year. MD Boyd Tunnock ...